Varanasi [also known as Banaras], home to 1.5 million people and the PMs launchpad, literally stinks despite all his solemn pre-poll pledges and guarantees. Barring the cleanliness campaign at ghats along the banks of the Ganges, particularly Assi Ghat where Modi brandished a spade prompting some banks and NGOs to chip in, and the inauguration of a trade facilitation centre for weavers, Modi has done nothing so far to honour his commitment. #Uttar Pradesh#Development#Narendra Modi#ConnectTheDots#Samajwadi Party#Varanasi

Tamil Nadu has been ranked as the best performing state on eight out of nine development parameters like economy, power, roads and health while Kerala secured the second slot, according to an Assocham study. #Tamil Nadu#Development#ASSOCHAM#Maharashtra

The farmers just dont trust the State agency as playing an honest arbiter or broker in implementing the new land acquisition ordinance. This is the real issue at stake. The idea of the State acquiring land on behalf of the private sector in big PPP projects of housing and industrial corridors as anathema to the ordinary farmer. Can the political class win their trust overnight? Not likely. #UPA#BJP#Development#Narendra Modi#Lok Sabha#agitation#farmers#RSS#Land Bill#NDA